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Left Councillors Oppose WTE Plant After Hyd Visit
The New Indian Express Chennai
|April 26, 2025
LEFT party councillors, who visited the Jawahar Nagar Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plant in Hyderabad on Thursday as part of a delegation of councillors and officials to study its operations ahead of implementing a similar facility in Kodungaiyur, reiterated their opposition to the proposed plant.
DMK, MDMK, and Congress councillors were among those who visited. Two DMK councillors welcomed the plant with one suggesting Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) could consider relocating it to a non-residential area. TNIE was unable to reach MDMK councillor S Jeevan and Congress councillor J Dilli Babu, who were part of the delegation.
This story is from the April 26, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Chennai.
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